Portfolio page faulty display

[jscheuer1]

Does seem buggy. But it might just be a poorly documented feature, something that could be done if it was explained more clearly. That leads me back to what I was going to do anyway at some point - looking at the PHP files. That's a bit more of a job for this part of it though. Something I could also use would be the comparable PHP files from the old theme. I'm thinking that if I'm lucky and good, I might be able to see what allowed the old theme to be more flexible, and/or what the new theme is expecting that it isn't currently getting to produce the result you want.

[mr108]

That leads me back to what I was going to do anyway at some point - looking at the PHP files. ...

I've sent you a PM, please check.

Marek

[mr108]

Does seem buggy. But it might just be a poorly documented feature, something that could be done if it was explained more clearly.

I submitted it as a bug report to the developer, but mentioned that it might be that he missed to explain it clearly that the Portfolio page has to be set as the static Front page.

In any case, if it's not a bug or if he will not fix it for a while I prepared a workaround fix:
I installed a separate WP with the theme in a folder called 'portfolio'. Portfolio page in that installation can be set to a static Front page. I added a Menu that points to the other pages in the original main site. When everything will be ready the http://terrybraunstein.com/portfolio/ will pick up the static Front page from the extra installation. I'll do that shift when all the images will get reselected in the new version of the theme (that's another incompatibility that resulted in updating the theme).

[jscheuer1]

My thinking is perhaps it's possible to do it without juggling things around and/or perhaps using two copies of the theme as I think you are saying. Like maybe it can just work the way you wanted/expected it too, but that the way to do that wasn't clearly explained. But, as I say it might just be a bug, or perhaps the developer even consciously dropped the feature, figuring it wasn't being used enough to justify keeping it. Then again it might even be clearly explained (either its use, or the fact that it was dropped), but we've simply missed that so far. There are always those possibilities in a case like this.

BTW, got the files. May take a bit to make any sense of them.

[mr108]

...Like maybe it can just work the way you wanted/expected it too, but that the way to do that wasn't clearly explained...Then again it might even be clearly explained (either its use, or the fact that it was dropped), but we've simply missed that so far.

The documentation is in the 'documentation' folder in the new version of the theme. I'm very sure I did not miss anything.


Another idea that I've got is to use redirection, perhaps in the .htaccess file?

Redirect from

1. http://sg.terrybraunstein.com/ to http://sg.terrybraunstein.com/site_entrance

and from

2. http://sg.terrybraunstein.com/portfolio/ to http://sg.terrybraunstein.com/ (which will show the portfolio page properly)

the only problem is that the second step will redirect again to http://sg.terrybraunstein.com/site_entrance
so is there any way to skip the second redirect to http://sg.terrybraunstein.com/site_entrance if it's coming from http://sg.terrybraunstein.com/portfolio/ ?
some kind of conditional redirection?

[mr108]

Finally! I got it working properly without redirecting and without using the second installation of the theme.

I was playing with the redirecting WP plugin that would redirect pages as I mentioned above. Then I deleted the redirections but for some reason the http://sg.terrybraunstein.com/portfolio/ kept redirecting to http://sg.terrybraunstein.com/ so I renamed the link to http://sg.terrybraunstein.com/portfolio1/ and now suddenly Portfolio page started to show in its proper grid display. When using the old link http://sg.terrybraunstein.com/portfolio/ it still displays as a blog.

It's a mystery but it works.

[jscheuer1]

Well, I was going to say that when you first mentioned a redirect that I thought you might be on a right track. I didn't though because I figured you would pursue it anyway, and though I know the general principles and where to look it up, I'm not all that proficient at it. I can only add at this point that what you've found makes an odd sort of sense in that I believe redirects are already a part of a theme of this nature, and might have already been at work frustrating our efforts. I would guess that you've somehow short circuited that by what you've done. And of course, in a case like this, if it works, I'm all for it.